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Interesting - and entirely logical. The problem, as ever, will probably be the agents. If all clubs operated a similar system then the agents would have to live with it, as it stands the club which is most desperate to sign the player will bend to the agent's wishes (as we have seen so often this season).
The other interesting (and possibly incorrect) statement was about the increase in the parachute payments - I thought that this started from next season???
Sorry - ignore the last bit about payments, just read the other thread on this...
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"Thank you for supporting Queens Park Rangers Steep Staircase"... and I thought I'd signed up for a rollercoaster.
I read that this morning, if Tony is looking to slash the wage bill he's going to have to take a huge short term hit to move them on - whether it's paying contracts up or negotiating with other teams to move players on, it's going to be costly, is there much benefit considering that those who do leave will need replacing??? I think some can & will go (Cesar, Remy, Taarabt, Granero etc) but some we'll be stuck with (Bosingwa, SWP etc) unless Tony is willing to take the financial hit of moving them on...
If you are going to have incentives, you first need to ensure the players you have are capable of responding to them. If you are recruiting with that idea you will struggle if other clubs offer better deals without players taking the risk. In an ideal world we would uncover some skilled players other clubs aren't aware of and can impose reasonable contracts rather than the stupid deals we've done up to now.
In any case any incentive scheme needs to be balancedto ensure players are playing for the club as well as their wages.
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 22:22 - Apr 17 with 2129 views
This talk looks at the some of the problems with incentive schemes. It's 18 minutes long, so not everyone will want to watch it, but to summarise, the less routine the work people do, the less effective incentive schemes are:
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 22:40 - Apr 17 with 2091 views
I believe that it makes sense to have contracts where the incentives form a reasonable part of the overall structure, but not TOO much. In the Championship, a league where team spirit and unity is incredibly important, I wonder whether the incentives being such a large part of the contract is going to create a problem with bitterness and divide the squad. On one hand, not being in the team because they are out of form might make the players more likely to buckle down. On the other hand, if they feel like they're being left out for little/no reason, and/or because the manager is playing favourites, it's actually affecting their livelihood as well as their playing time.
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 02:52 - Apr 18 with 1961 views
Think these sort of incentives have always existed one way or another haven't they - remember Blackpool players looking to take their owner to court over payments with their promotion few seasons back. Will be added cream rather though and might either keep a couple or attract a couple of players - don't think anyone will be scratching around for dinner money. Struggling to keep glass at half full but have to hope that the parachute payments do give us an unfair advantage over competitors for next season at least.
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 03:24 - Apr 18 with 1951 views
Success on the pitch is, of course, top priority, as TV money is important and - from a match-day attendance perspective - no-one likes spending hard earned money to go and see a bunch of players who don't try hard enough and/or who clearly would rather be playing elsewhere. However, we are going into years where building attendance to fill a larger new stadium becomes a top priority, and a player's worth to the club is increased by the number of additional seats his (or her, with the women's teams) contribution to the club helps to fill.
Every time one of our players (or training staff) goes to a school or a young persons club in the local community and near districts (+/- 25 miles), that's 100 or so families who have had a positive interaction with the club, and therefore who might be more predisposed to come see the R's play, rather than our rivals.
Every time players visit a hospital ward it touches lives. Some times those interactions should remain private, but other times maybe the club can provide free video coverage of a few games to the patients in hospital (who can't get to games) and maybe a story gets printed in a local newspaper - with the result that another few tens of thousands of people get to see something positive about the club.
Every time a player helps a local charity... including our own Tiger Kids...
You get the idea...
It's part of what it takes to turn a good player into a QPR legend.
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 16:00 - Apr 18 with 1729 views
In Rodney Marsh's interview on 'My Sporting Life' on Talksport last year he mentioned that a lot of the players at Man City didn't like him because he disrupted team play, but because their bonuses were tied to crowd numbers and he added thousands to every gate at Man City they got big pay increases because of him.
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QPR to look at new way of paying players - from the Times on 16:11 - Apr 18 with 1708 views
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